Railroad tracks covered in snow at Sherman Hill in Wyoming, 1896

Sherman Hill was the highest point on the transcontinental railroad at 8,640 ft. (2,630 m.). It is located about 7.5 miles from the Sherman, a now-abandoned railroad town.  In his 1877 book, The Pacific Tourist, Henry T. Williams, described the weather at Sherman:
"At Sherman, the snow never falls very deep, but there is a constant breeze, that most Eastern opople would pronounce a gale, and the snow is constantly drifting and packs so hard whenever it finds lodgment, that it is exceedingly difficult to displace, requiring an immense power of snowplows, engines and shovelers."